Word: islamicizing
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There are three main groups pressuring Mossadegh. The Fanatics of Islam are fighting for a revival of Islamic practices in Iran and a great pan-Islamic movement, he explained. "The're not consistently anti-West or East, but pro-Islamic."
They didn't complain. They didn't protest. They just waited. Forbidden by Islamic law to wear hats on hajj, they sat huddled hour after hour under the broiling sun, certain that Allah, in his wisdom, would somehow get them to Mecca. Lebanese peddlers did a land-office...
In the back countries of the Moslem world, the men who can afford it still keep the Allah-granted quota of four wives. Unable to read, forbidden to attend schools, or to listen to the deliberations of the males, millions of Islamic women remain quietly in their houses, unaware that...
But in the cities of Islam, time has chipped at the hard pillars of Islamic dogma:
Erring Woman. The elders of Islam decided it was time to put the women in their place. From the Council of Ulemas of Al Azhar University, the supreme court of Islamic law, recently came a stern fatwa (Koranic interpretation) of the 1,3OO-year-old teachings of the Prophet Mohammed...